A good brief article by Linda Chavez explores more examples of the media ploy to defeat Bush in The media plays ‘trick or treat’.
This story’s theme is all too familiar to Canadian conservatives—a country in which unions, academia, and the liberal-left media are simply the communications departments of the liberal-left political parties—quite literally in the case of its state-run behemoth the CBC.
The media are too busy repackaging old Iraq news in an October offensive against President George W. Bush’s reelection to investigate truly startling evidence unearthed this week that the Communist Party may have been directing John Kerry’s anti-war activities in the early 1970s.
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So why isn’t the mainstream media all over this story? If John Kerry—wittingly or not—was carrying out directives from Hanoi, or perhaps even Moscow, the American people have the right to know before they decide whether to elect him president on Tuesday. But the networks and major dailies were too busy covering a hysterical report that 380 tons of explosives went missing from an Iraqi depot in the early days of the U.S. invasion to inquire into John Kerry’s dubious activities in the anti-war movement.
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The media rule seems to be if a story might hurt George W. Bush, play it up big; if it might help Bush, bury it; and if it might hurt John Kerry, ignore it altogether. In an election as close as this one, the media’s role could be decisive. We used to expect the candidates to unleash their own October surprise in an effort to sway the voters at the last minute. Now it’s the media that plays that game. Come Halloween, it’s media tricks for Bush and treats for Kerry.
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